E10/11 Sept 30

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Good morning, everyone.

We’ll get started at 8:30.

Today’s agenda

1. Orange Shirt Day – remember survivors and victims of Residential Schools in Canada

Government programs from 1880s until 1990s- Aboriginal children taken from their families, taken to state-run schools – make these children forget about their home language, forget their home culture, learn to be more like mainstream Canadians

- thousands of stories of abuse of these children – physical abuse, emotional abuse, psychological abuse, sexual abuse, death, starvation, neglect

Aged 6-18

- generational trauma – First Nations Peoples in Canada

reeducation – “take the Indian out of the Indian”

- take away language, culture, history, break their connection with their people

- “it was to erase their identity”

- train these children to be domestic servants – maids, manual workers

Children were beaten and starved when they spoke their own language in the school. They were forced to speak English or French.

- thousands of deaths of these children in these schools, mass graves, found even recently

-sexual abuse

first Residential School opened in 1831?

last Residential Schools closed in 1996, 24 years ago

160 years of Residential Schools

- multiple generations, 8-9 generations of people

- lots of people still around who went to 

Residential Schools

- often have serious problems – emotional, psychological

- dealing with substance abuse – booze, alcohol, drug

- violence, domestic abuse, child abuse

- A child raised with violence is likely to be violent to their own children. 

let out of school at 18 – What have you learned about love, caring, self-respect?

likely learned only violence, self-loathing, anger

This has to change!

First Nations high school graduation rates are very low- 68%

Mainstream Canada – 90%

Education is key!

- life expectancy is much lower – die 10 years earlier

Young First Nations is the largest growing demographic in Canada.

My Opinion: Education is a big key!!

Education leads to good jobs, more self-respect, models for 

the community.

Canada has taken some steps toward admitting their culpability, steps toward reconciliation, steps toward healing

Orange Shirt Day – one very small symbolic acknowledgement of the damage done to First Nations Peoples by Canadian government, representing the people of Canada

2. Adult Education survey

How did you hear about Adult Education?

Then VSB will know the best places to advertise.

https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=WC6KCzB7CEq6t9dVWeDjpXFEoKnV1ydKnTc19YaFENFUODhISUExUlFHMElNMVU1TTlDVVRKV1AxNy4u

HW Please do this survey and then send me a note telling me 

that you did it.

3. Finish sentence combining

5. The concert ended at 11.

We were hungry.

We left GM Place.

We went to our favourite restaurant.

a. We left GM Place after the concert ended at 11, and we went to our favourite restaurant. NO ‘hungry’

b. The concert ended at 11, so we left the GM place and went to our favourite restaurant. NO ‘hungry’

c. We were hungry because the concert ended at 11pm.

d. We were hungry after the concert ended at 11, so we went to our favourite restaurant. COMPOUND COMPLEX

6. We arrived home.

It was late.

We were tired.

We were happy.

a. When we arrived home late; （we were） tired and happy. RW, not English

b. It was late when we arrived home, and we were tired and happy.

c. Although we were tired but we were happy. XXX

Although we were tired, we were happy.

We were tired, but we were happy.

4. JP Chapter 4, Part 2 “Jung-Sum, second brother”

5. Using quoted material

** I have had a few requests for rewrites. In my usual in-class courses, I offer bonus points for rewrites of tests. (1pt per RW).

I haven’t been doing those since May because of the volume of emails.

Quizes, tests, and essays- average

Last week – one makeup test to replace a low mark

Decide which test or quiz you want to replace the mark for. On the last week, you will have an opportunity to rpelace the mark with the mark from a special test on the last week.

e.g. Quizzes  3/3, 2/3, 1/3, 2.5/3

Tests 5/6, 2/6, 3/6, 6/6, 4.5/6

You decide which one mark you want to replace. Tell me. Then write the special test on the final week.

“I want to replace the test we did on October 4 for which I got 2/6.”

That’s your job to figure that out for yourself.

Comments: “Vague in places” “Broad point” “Vague point”

the writing does not refer specifically enough to the story

e.g. “Wang Bak paid a lot of attention to Jook Liang” VAGUE

“Wang Bak paid a lot of attention to Jook Liang’s tap dancing.”

“They spend a lot of time together.” VAGUE

“They spent a lot of time together going to movies.”

Jook Liang is the narrator of Part 1- we have insight into her inner thoughts, the story is told through her eyes.

Wang Bak – we do not get his first person perspective, don’t get inside his head, instead we read what he says and what he does

Any book has point-of-view (Literary Terms)

1. first-person point of view “I” – special insight into the heart and mind of another person, great beauties of reading

2. third-person point of view “he”, “she”, “they”